A baby’s unique way of welcoming her father for the first time has gone viral. Nebraska soldier Cole Tesar, who had been deployed to Afghanistan for nine months, met his daughter Harper for the first time at the airport Sunday. She sat behind a neon pink poster with a message inspired by the Carly Rae Jepsen song “Call Me Maybe.”
The news station WOWT 6 News shared the following image on its Facebook page, and it has already received more than 1.5 million “likes”:
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